Matchmaking for Beginners - Naturally empathic Marnie is engaged to the love of her life when she meets his eccentric and possibly magical aunt Blix Holliday during the engagement party thrown by his highly status conscious southern family. Although Marnie's encounters with Blix at the party, and then momentarily on her wedding day are brief, it forms an important connection that will alter Marnie's fate, or as Blix calls it set her up for her 'Big Life'. After she gets dumped on her honeymoon, Marnie returns to Florida to reconnect with her family and first love only to be mysteriously summoned to Brooklyn after Blix dies and leaves her brownstone and the matchmaking/life improving projects she started with its residents. Although a large portion of the book takes place in the winter and the fall, reading about a bit of matchmaking and magic in Brooklyn is very satisfying to read in the summer.
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